2012 NFL Draft Preview -- WSJ Sports

4/23/2012 5:42PM

The Indianapolis Colts. The Cleveland Browns. The New York Jets. The Washington Redskins. All team are looking to the 2012 NFL draft for the chance to help them win next season. Evan Newmark and the WSJ sports team make predictions on who will do well and who will do poorly in the draft this week. Originally aired on 04/19/12.

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the ... twenty down better watch out ... the off duty today ... we're here we are the Radio City music off the top football ... don't they ... that's the stage of New York's famous Radio City music all ... we're one week from today the two thousand and twelve NFL draft will take place ... I'm Evan Newmark join me and a panel of Ace Wall Street Journal sports reporters for our preview of the two thousand and twelve ... NFL draft ... coming up now ... gentlemen welcome to Radio City music Hall ... lot of excitement you feel excited though even though we're a week away but slow and the ... exciting as this was one yet spring proposing now the purpose of the NFL draft as I understand it is to cover reinforce competitive parity ... most NFL teams and so every year the team and the blast is the one that gets the first pick of the following year ... question era ... does the draft you would suppose to do ... things today that its reliance on hometown teen ... years ago that when when sixties human remember ... it was an overnight but now the lines that one most exciting teams only ... Calvin Johnson Big receiver neon sign that the staffer ... was a high-stakes finely worked out after so many years taking on guide to the Charles Rogers or you think it does we're absolutely heaven if ... into what goes as well as is widely expected to the Colts to turn a franchise around one am absolutely in parity with that in some years ... is very ... mature you are ... in love with a movie franchise savior ... that called for her to be so hard last year and he was ... about to ... see ... happen overnight like me ... I think that the two or three years into the computer for a spot on the plan ... I think the Redskins ugly turned out to second think your car for Chris and I think ill of the seams with information ... to be over four years and so you guys I get the sentiment gauge of one here a dissenting view ... that the sentiment in your believers in the draft system that the NFL is created ... well I mean there and there's a flipside of the Lions are going to you could argue the Lions were bad for so long because they didn't know how to draft in every year there was just that the best wide receiver who is usually terrible Mike Williams Charles Rogers ... and then the finely cashed in with Calvin Johnson ended up taking ninety one considers the God of all that and then they turn ... their certain teams that are gone and that we go to the draft and others that are known to have ... the talk about the Jets into just read ... the use by the debt to terrible everytime Jessica player will show a shot of the crowd never would go with it ... McKesson ... Noble a scooter to the residents pay you ever been one of those who again I've never year under the draft and deftly at home ... the isthe is just and the needles ... right right I mean it sets up the present was taking famously taken cameo Brian ... over family ... that's a cameo ... at the cameo County Oberon to get in the day was ... I like and never have existed will proceed with a trip to Seattle was ... standing straight up while Brady over when although all the Japan's no one wants that the rich and one cents and ... you know when it failed to block ... the blog ... all of them or for LinkedIn before he lost in this this down to ... the West has become a bit of a circus now it is a lot of hoopla ... this place to read into the new gold filled to the brand began last defense for three days ... you know um ... that the various hotels in Europe be filled with media with ... agents with the players ... has become too much of the spectacle today or is it basically get you know we we get to what it deserves ... now I think that the first day with the prime time that seem like an sore ... ascension is before was just cannot let around ... eleven am ET and the disco all day ... the second day as cavalier deal because it's like you know all the attention Saunders who is can a ... go in the first run especially this year it was first able to walk the first of all thanks ... for them what's been happening so in Cleveland ... it's about a second day I know there's not quite as rosy ... as we met with down that's for the divers aren't absolutely any use of the week up at ... ten am eleven am and was a was like to ... see the ones that are going to talk ... Atkinson would really be like a diehard to just fall when all announced becomes much more Jaffer who was the path ... was the pile when you come to a draft ... there's there's the NFL as an organization there the owners of the individual teams ... that are the players with their agents when you when you walk around here you know come next Thursday ... the ones who who really feel like you know what ... I'm the one with the dark ... but that serve different for each team in any way share the famous shot of the war room where it's a bunch of guys sitting around this book Laporte Templeton boards in twenty years but ... I mean I think it's teams defenders the decision maker preached ... and aam ... obviously ... there's the telling factor some teams it is better than others the reason nuisance and ... a couple years ago were team didn't get the taking on a long time ... and I'm sick huge one ... and so you know obviously that was a let's talk about the situation because ... the draft it's hard to explain why some people in the office early they would try to explain to me how what what an angel and doesn't wanna go to the call ... now my understanding is he does what to say he didn't ... and Eli Manning one of the charges were two years ago ... when that's the case how is this can work that is the legal process isn't just about the money ... I had in the NFL match for working out on a work added strain any IVC it's not a situation is due on the was can happen and locking in Colorado you ... are ... going next Washington ... but what you summon up with Eli Manning obviously years ago there was no way this was due ... to Bolivia ... and yet teams will work it out because they realize that ... there's just too much died and we stood there to try to bring in a guy who's so what ... about the money what money is Andrew Luck and the look and ... calm ... you know couple of days from now everyone is Ardi been agreed between them into cold sweats a lot less it was two years ... where the market last year ... of players you have one two thousand and forty fifteen billion dollars to become the highest paid player ... in the staff ... now the current fix that problem ... to be around twenty one dollars and was the ... icing and less than that ... and as you go on ... and so it's much more structured use to be ... really really feel that teams can use to be the first first overall pick was a very expensive mistake ... Sam Bradford role of the choirs of how annoying it like our actually he got ... them in Oklahoma and really prove anything ... and yet he still might be decent parents but you ... need it ... I think it's for the fast food chains to franchises to live and die by the draft ... and there are lots of teams that get five I wanted to make then ripple ... that they they make and rapturous and you never hear again and that it could still go on a March to support bottoming in deference under fifteen buildings are complicated in other ways to do it you don't have used to draft a bill that the team but you know ... the the ... the pick of the famous for taking Tom Brady that way ... that turnaround pictures you can argue that was the most important taken the last fifteen years how much of this is a lot I mean I'm no engineer before ... well enough ... I know when the teams go in and done you know ... they're all these tests undertaken has all sorts of film tapes and ... exercises may go to various camps and there ... is a cute a man of valuation ... the athletes that are dressed the body in a far far the most takeover athletes in the history of man coming ... in yet sometimes again or I can sometimes and Iran ... schlock is about ... an insane quest to lot one on the need to look the success rate specific quarterbacks ... China's rapid spread reason why think that link quarterbacks are little ... this sounds class missile overvalued deal in coming months there's been ... so high in a trap you in in optical backhaul waits in ... line lead to some Unite's Keely Smith ... where ... progress he chooses so high and they seem to prove it so much in college nineteen points ... let's turn to Mr ... issued two thousand twelve ... the first and second draft pick and talked about earlier probably done deal what about number three and Number formed effectively Cleveland ... who is claiming Avago for hosting ... the effect of whoever they pick not gone for the rest the draft of an interview someone think it depends on the Street ... I think that three or four to the right now ... we're back to this and am I thinking ... if you if you're ... into you may ... know rise above we should be factors to someone you work with us to be too wordy Finke's ... I think part of the top ten ... I mean I think it does not come to me ... with wide receiver grounds for a brief period ... means there's a lot of unknowns their audience told they can twist and perfect for the future we'll be re use and banking arena the Dolphins down the heat ... so that we have this job is to good health ... workers ... so just when you think about a week and four they have magically liking them I get what he would be tight and tried not also offers a line of concern in the summer will take them I think that's a no brainer it was great running back and computer summit Ardi did their crazy quarterback to what was his last from a Christian ponder so ... they now need ... you know an officer one of those two guys now and I think the Browns ... the Browns can do a lot of things that people take from this and I think can score points they have the ... duffel and a good de fence they just have no often pronounced Opinion explosive ... game changing player ... that seems to be it's all ... about the new vehicle for Port Maclin ... it's all the question how ... loyal they article quite with it that he has ... aam personally due to the re ... The Russell and I don't know if it's quite there so they might ... it might be wise to Court Let's talk about a few high-profile teams ... but the Broncos ... the Broncos have now ... brought on board after a lot of controversy Peyton Manning ... what it what prompted him to do in order to get Manning the rating ... based on their purportedly for ... me ... I ... added the Broncos are going to be in contention obviously in the last ... thing the thing is little ... or no are part of me I think the sheriff heard that the Minister for Defence tackles into thinking there's ... no meaning builds no friends and so ... he did it in half with some of the most economists ... see it became ... a perennial ... and so when ... I think the thing that ... getting into a fence around in the wake of last ... season ... and are likely to their backers of the whole thing ... I was trying to live to tool to production ... one I want your sleeper that I e the picture ... the pic ... was gonna be able to make a well that's a good chance ... that we got Telenor which if anybody out there know what was in place when they were back on ... in there knowing years pointing at the Sabine see record all time wins ... I he's probably going to bury image are probably around six around ... and I just feel like he's the guy you ... know and and I think that lake resort have this natural tendency in in the fall ... from the ... union ... tendency ... to distort the scenic dicey don't have the killer our tree can do ... and spending is one reason people looking more and also the fact he played the last conference I think what it what we on the whole lecture about a third round of ... the deal ... those are the lightest one until ... though I mean when he ... sings mean ... would you like ... I'm Lee Thomas two one two years ... uses the word for it ... the six ft five in Auckland with production ... we think you get from horrible ... acts ... they look ... to ... you knew that ... and I do think his speed and I think the AFL's plan to help me get the once over with new incentive because your one good season but ... I think that so many variables in college as we like ... I like the Michael James the running back an organ and she would start college at Franklin understand why he's stopped and talked some more ... the knock on him is that shortens the five non but I think it would be on the phone right now a lot of shortcuts ... anyway ... one day ... yet there they all did what any new dresser and probably not ... probably probably not ... OK ... final protection final protection what team will come out having done the worst job at the draft guarantee ... um I think the Browns brand in the data to get a tough decision to make their work ... and I kinda promenade loneliness in intimate ways ... my guess is the Redskins the beautiful locks your Robert Griffin item approval to move from France ... with that ... its way to just tell me that gets into the city ... gentlemen thank you very very much ... Jeff Foster Kevin Clark and Darren Everson from the Wall Street Journal sports desk ... thanks for your input ... we look forward to the NFL draft which means taking place ... right here one week from today at the Radio City ...